Columbia College ARTS 111 Quiz 1 (2015)

Question 1 2 / 2 points

In semiotics, the four letters p-i-p-e constitute

a sign

etymology

a signifier

a signified

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Question 2 2 / 2 points

Which is not a formal element of art?

shapes

planes

deconstruction

lines

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Question 3 2 / 2 points

Ferdinand de Saussure is most associated with

iconology

deconstruction

psychoanalysis

semiology

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Question 4 2 / 2 points

Complementary colors are

one removed from each other on the color wheel

next to each other on the color wheel

not on the color wheel

opposite each other on the color wheel

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Question 5 2 / 2 points

Morphe is the Greek word for

sleep

shape

movement

line

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Question 6 2 / 2 points

A diptych is a

repeated image

two-part sculpture

double building

two-paneled painting

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Question 7 2 / 2 points

Two types of balance are

plane and composition

low relief and high relief

symmetry and asymmetry

formal and stylistic

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Question 8 2 / 2 points

Intrinsic value means

the assessment of aesthetic character

the religious value of a work

the genetic value of a work

the patriotic assessment of a work

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Question 9 2 / 2 points

The primary colors are

green, red, yellow

red, blue, green

red, yellow, blue

black, gray, white

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Question 10 2 / 2 points

Sigmund Freud is most associated with

feminism

deconstruction

semiology

psychoanalysis and psychobiography

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Question 11 2 / 2 points

All these terms refer to color purity except

chroma

saturation

hue

intensity

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Question 12 2 / 2 points

Who said, "One does like to make one's mummy just as nice as possible?"

van Gogh

Oppenheim

Whistler

van Eyck

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Question 13 2 / 2 points

The "art train" refers to

a trail of stolen art

Goering's cache of stolen art

a national museum housed in a railroad station

a training school

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Question 14 2 / 2 points

The Greek word chroma means

value

color

chrome

colorless

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Question 15 2 / 2 points

The Apocrypha refer to

the unaccepted books of the Bible

the end of the world

the last book of the Bible

a commentary on the Bible

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Chapter 1 Question Pool

Question 16 2 / 2 points

Wandjina are

shaman

Mimi hunters

cloud spirits

Aboriginal kangaroos

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Question 17 2 / 2 points

The term "Paleolithic" refers to the

Middle Stone Age

Old Stone Age

New Stone Age

Bronze Age

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Question 18 2 / 2 points

Which term is not related to making sculpture?

relief

modeling

post and lintel

carving

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Question 19 2 / 2 points

The oldest know Aboriginal rock painting style is

Mimi

x-ray

megalithic

Dreaming

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Question 20 2 / 2 points

A trilithon is a

pair of posts and single lintel

a fossil

three posts and lintels

a triple stone

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Question 21 2 / 2 points

The main shapes in the Venus of Willendorf are

oval

cubic

triangular

rectangular

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Question 22 2 / 2 points

Which of the following is not found at Lascaux?

reindeer

horses

a horned owl

bulls

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Question 23 2 / 2 points

Who of the following was never involved in studying cave paintings?

Henri Breuil

Pech-Merle

Leroi-Gourhan

Reinach

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Question 24 2 / 2 points

As used in this text, a relief refers to

a category of sculpture

a post and lintel

a rest

a painted image

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Question 25 2 / 2 points

Which of the following does not have a representation of a bison?

Tuc d'Audoubert

Stonehenge

La Madelaine

Altamira

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Question 26 2 / 2 points

Old Stone Age people

used stone tools

built stone tombs

worshipped in stone temples

had stone houses

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Question 27 2 / 2 points

Which is not a subject of Aboriginal rock painting?

buffalo

human forms

Wandjina

kangaroos

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Question 28 2 / 2 points

In which of the following modern countries have almost three thousand menhirs been found?

India

United States

Russia

France

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Question 29 2 / 2 points

Who built Stonehenge?

King Arthur

Paleolithic people

Druids

Beaker People

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Question 30 2 / 2 points

Stonehenge is located at

Marlborough Downs

Sussex

Salisbury Plain

Carnac

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Question 31 2 / 2 points

Which is not connected to Stonehenge?

Heel Stone

Camelot

Sarsen

Aubrey Holes

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Question 32 2 / 2 points

Which is true of the Beaker People?

they were literate

they were nomads

they hunted ducks

they made pottery

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Question 33 2 / 2 points

An important cultural change from Paleolithic to Neolithic is

from nomadic to agricultural

from megalithic to caves

from pottery to sculpture

from warlike to peaceful

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Question 34 2 / 2 points

The caves at Altamira share certain things in common with Lascaux

they are in France

they are in flat, lake country

they contain remarkable Paleolithic depictions of animals

a, b, and c

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Question 35 2 / 2 points

Paleolithic paintings of animals usually have been found

on rock faces open to the light of day

in Neolithic shelters

in the uninhabited depths of caves

at the mouths of caves

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Question 36 2 / 2 points

The most important Paleolithic cave paintings are located in

Spain

France

England

a and b

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Question 37 2 / 2 points

Additive sculpture uses

granite

clay

wood

marble

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Question 38 2 / 2 points

Pigment is

a racial characteristic

painted relief

watercolor

color

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Question 39 2 / 2 points

The so-called Shaman cave painting is at

Trois-Freres

Lascaux

Pech-Merle

Chauvet

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Question 40 2 / 2 points

Paleolithic paintings are not

capturing the essence of certain species

created with the illusion of movement

abstract

a symbolic capture of the animal